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...cost of the University's Cambridge St. underpass has skyrocketed to $3.4 million--$1.4 million more than the original estimate for the project...
Construction on the underpass begins this week. Workmen will cut down trees next to Memorial Hall and begin widening Quincy St. These preliminaries, including the moving of utilities located in the path of the construction and the building of temporary roads, will continue through the winter. Actual digging on the underpass is scheduled to begin on April 1 and be finished by June...
When completed, the underpass will handle all cars that now use Cambridge St. in front of Mem. Hall. Part of Kirkland St. behind Memorial Hall will be closed off, allowing Harvard to build a pedestrian mall linking the Yard with Littauer and the Law School...
...formula seems to have had its successes. On specific items that it has sought from the City (for example, the closing of two streets, one to allow for the construction of a $2.8 million car underpass and the other to facilitate the constructions of Peabody Terrace), Harvard has been consistently successful. Some times the University has encountered some vocal opposition and delay but when the roll call has come the votes have always been there. This was not always the case. "Back in the thirties," recalls one politician "the University just didn't have the votes...
...campus" dispels the notion that sentimentality will prevail. Not counting the money spent on William James, or the millions that will be spent on future buildings, Harvard has already committed $1 million for the Design School land and $2.8 million (it could go to three) for the underpass. And, as the years go by, the dollar commitment will go up, the number of alumni defending Mem Hall will go down, and the day of the bulldozer will move gradually closer